World Meteorological Organization

09:00

1.         OPENING OF THE SESSION

09:00

           1.1.       Welcome from the Host Organization (Dr Robert Argent, General Manager of Research to Operations, Bureau of Meteorology)

09:15

           1.2.       Welcome from DBNet-CG Chair (Liam Gumley, CIMSS, SSEC, UW Madison)

09:20

           1.3.       Introduction of participants

09:35

           1.4.       Approval of the agenda

09:45

2.         STATUS OF DBNET REGIONAL NETWORK COMPONENTS AND SERVICES

09:45

2.1.     Asia-Pacific

09:45

2.1.1. Météo-France (Gilles Montesquieu - remotely)

10:00

2.1.2. India

10:00

2.1.2.1. IMD (Ashim Kumar Mitra)

10:10

2.1.2.2. NCMRWF (Srinivas Desamsetti)

10:15

2.1.3. KMA (Dae-gyeom Jeon / Junho Kim)

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

2.1.4. CMA (Yang Lei)

11:15

2.1.5. JMA (Toshiyuki Kitajima)

11:30

2.1.6. BoM, incl. The status of the Darwin receiving station (Robert Pipunic)

A6.3. BoM: to consider the possibility to process and distribute IASI data (from Metop-B, -C) received at the Casey station (Antarctica) via DBNet, which was interrupted some time ago

11:45

2.1.7. NIWA (Simon Wood)

A6.6. NWPSAF, JMA and NIWA: to analyse the discrepancies in the timeliness monitoring for the Maupuia station (New Zealand)

12:00

2.2. Canada (ECCC) (Matt Arkett – remotely)

12:15

Lunch break

13:45

2.3. EUMETSAT (EARS)

13:45

2.3.1. EARS, incl partner stations (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne)

14:05

2.3.2. Stations of opportunity (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne)

14:25

2.4.    South America

14:25

2.4.1. Argentina (Paula Hobouchian)

14:40

2.4.2. Brazil (INPE, Renato Galante Negri)

14:55

2.5. NOAA, incl partner stations: CIMSS (Liam Gumley)

15:15

2.6 SAWIDRA – Africa (ACMAD, Ali Ahmed Abani)

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

3.         UPDATES FROM NWP SAF

16:00

Monitoring by NWP SAF: MetOffice (Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson - remotely)

A6.24. NWPSAF: to contact those who are receiving the DBNet daily summary notifications to confirm if they are OK with switching from the email notifications to the information posted on the NWPSAF webpage and the best forms of this information

18:00

End of Day 1

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4      DBNet IMPLEMENTATION

09:00

4.1      Direct Broadcast

09:00

4.1.1   Review of satellite priorities at stations
(WMO, Mikael Rattenborg)

09:20

4.2     Processing software, status of L0/L1 packages

09:20

4.2.1   CSPP (CIMSS, Liam Gumley)

09:40

4.2.2   AAPP, including support for Metop-SG (NWP SAF, Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson - remotely)

10:10

4.2.3 FY3L0pp and FY3L1pp, incl. support for FY-3E/F/G (CMA, Yang Lei)

10:25

4.2.4 MWRI & HIRAS (Yang Lei, CMA)

A.3.3. Define descriptors for MWRI and HIRAS 

10:40

Coffee break

11:10

4.3     Processing system

11:10

4.3.1   Feasibility of FY-3 cloud-based processing (CMA, Yang Lei)

A6.17. CMA: to test (with possible support of EUM, CIMSS, BoM) the use of the public DB cloud platform for the CMA-DB station and report back to DBNet-CG

11:30

4.3.2    Discussion of processing software/system issues

12:00

4.4     Planning (DB services on planned satellite systems)

12:00

4.4.1   NOAA-21

12:00

4.4.1.1 NOAA-21 (NOAA/NESDIS, Lihang Zhou)

12:20

4.4.1.2 NOAA/NESDIS progress on implementing VIIRS cluster statistics within CrIS field-of-view (NOAA/NESDIS, Lihang Zhou)

12:40

Lunch break

14:00

4.4.2   Metop-SG & AWS PFM/EPS-Sterna

14:00

4.4.2.1 Metop-SG (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne)

14:30

4.4.2.2 AWS PFM/EPS-Sterna (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne)

A6.4. EUM: to clarify the downlink characteristics for Sterna (AWS), including the ESA prototype satellite

15:00

Coffee break

15:30

4.        DBNet IMPLEMENTATION (cont’d)

15:30

4.5     Dissemination

15:30

4.5.1   Update on WIS 2.0 implementation (Simon Elliot, EUMETSAT)

16:00

4.5.2 Progress on migrating GTS data exchange to WIS 2.0 (Peiwen Jin, CMA/NMIC - remotely)

16:30

4.5.3 Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0 for DBNet (Simon Elliot, EUMETSAT)

A.6.26. To develop a draft transition plan from GTS to WIS 2.0 for DBNet

17:00

End of Day 2

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4. Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0 (cont’d)

09:00

Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0 for DBNet: wrap up

09:15

5.    NWP REQUIREMENTS FOR DBNET PRODUCTS

09:15

5.1 Feedback from the NWP user community (ITWG Co-Chair, BoM, Fiona Smith)

10:00

5.2 Other potential services: DBNet station operator survey results and follow-up discussion

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

5.3 Summary of GODEX-NWP-6 (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg)

11:45

5.4     Preliminary results of impact studies carried out by SMN (Paula Hobouchian)

A6.20. SMN: to consider making impact studies on the usage of DBNet products in the regional NWP systems to feed into the DBNet article (A.3.7) as well as share this information with DBNet-CG

12:00

6.    DBNet DOCUMENTS REVISION

12:00

6.1         DBNet Guide (WMO, Zoya Andreeva)

A6.19. WMO: to update the DBNet Guide limiting it to a more static content, and transfer the more dynamic information of the Guide to the WMO community web page

12:30

Lunch break

14:00

6.2     Status of DBNet Article Draft (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg)

A3.7. Prepare first version of DBNet article for publication in a journal (tbd) and in the WMO Bulletin

14:30

7.       COORDINATION

14:30

7.1      DBNet Coordination Group membership (DBNet-Coord) Operational points of contacts (DBNet-OPS) (WMO, Zoya Andreeva)

14:40

7.2         Coordination with other relevant groups (ITWG, IROWG, CGMS, NOAA HRD user group)

14:50

8.        CONCLUSION

14:50

8.1     DBNet priorities

15:10

8.2     Action review

16:00

8.3     Next meetings (intersessionals, DBNet-CG-8)

16:00

End of Day 3 and Adjourn